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Stopcock Contamination

Gale E. Dryden, MD^*, and Joseph Brickler, BS

*Chief of Anesthesiology, Wishard Memorial Hospital; Assistant Professor Anesthesiology, Indiana University School of Medicine. Department of Anesthesiology, Wishard Memorial Hospital, 1001 West Tenth Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 Microbiology Laboratory, Wishard Memorial Hospital. Department of Anesthesiology, Wishard Memorial Hospital, 1001 West Tenth Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

Abstract

The source of septicemia as nosocomial infection is often difficult to define^1–4 and is frequently associated with high mortality.⁵ Stopcocks are commonly used in the practice of anesthesia to assist in pressure monitoring and for the administration of drugs, fluids, and transfusions. We examined their potential as a source for systemic contamination.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999